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How we work

See what triggers an intervention and how supply and logistics allow our teams to respond quickly.

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How we're run

Discover our governance and what it means to be an association. Find a quick visual guide to our offices around the world.

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Reports and financials

Read through our annual financial and activity reports, and find out about where our funds come from and how they are spent.

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Accountability

Read the policies, reports, and plans on how we address issues like racism and reduce our carbon footprint, ensuring our actions align with the highest ethical standards.

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What we do

Médecins Sans Frontières brings medical humanitarian assistance to victims of conflict, natural disasters, epidemics or healthcare exclusion.

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Where we work

In more than 70 countries, Médecins Sans Frontières provides medical humanitarian assistance to save lives and ease the suffering of people in crisis situations.

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MSF Access

MSF Access pushes for access to, and the development of, life-saving and life-prolonging medicines, diagnostic tests and vaccines for people in our programmes and beyond.

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CRASH

Based in Paris, CRASH conducts and directs studies and analysis of MSF actions. They participate in internal training sessions and assessment missions in the field.

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UREPH

Based in Geneva, UREPH (or Research Unit) aims to improve the way MSF projects are implemented in the field and to participate in critical thinking on humanitarian and medical action.

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ARHP

Based in Barcelona, ARHP documents and reflects on the operational challenges and dilemmas faced by the MSF field teams.

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MSF Analysis

Based in Brussels, MSF Analysis intends to stimulate reflection and debate on humanitarian topics organised around the themes of migration, refugees, aid access, health policy and the environment in which aid operates.

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MSF Supply

This logistical and supply centre in Brussels provides storage of and delivers medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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MSF Logistique

This supply and logistics centre in Bordeaux, France, provides warehousing and delivery of medical equipment, logistics and drugs for international purchases for MSF missions.

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Amsterdam Procurement Unit

This logistical centre in Amsterdam purchases, tests, and stores equipment including vehicles, communications material, power supplies, water-processing facilities and nutritional supplements.

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Brazilian Medical Unit

BRAMU specialises in neglected tropical diseases, such as dengue and Chagas, and other infectious diseases. This medical unit is based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

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MSF Medical Guidelines

Our medical guidelines are based on scientific data collected from MSF’s experiences, the World Health Organization (WHO), other renowned international medical institutions, and medical and scientific journals.

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Epicentre

Providing epidemiological expertise to underpin our operations, conducting research and training to support our goal of providing medical aid in areas where people are affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or excluded from health care.

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Evaluation Units

Evaluation Units have been established in Vienna, Stockholm, and Paris, assessing the potential and limitations of medical humanitarian action, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of our medical humanitarian work.

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LGBTQI+ Inclusion in Health Settings

MSF works with LGBTQI+ populations in many settings over the last 25-30 years. LGBTQI+ people face healthcare disparities with limited access to care and higher disease rates than the general population.

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LUXOR

The Luxembourg Operational Research (LuxOR) unit coordinates field research projects and operational research training, and provides support for documentation activities and routine data collection.

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MSF Academy for Healthcare

To upskill and provide training to locally-hired MSF staff in several countries, MSF has created the MSF Academy for Healthcare.

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Humanitarian Law

This Guide explains the terms, concepts, and rules of humanitarian law in accessible and reader-friendly alphabetical entries.

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MSF Paediatric Days

The MSF Paediatric Days is an event for paediatric field staff, policy makers and academia to exchange ideas, align efforts, inspire and share frontline research to advance urgent paediatric issues of direct concern for the humanitarian field.

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MSF Foundation

The MSF Foundation aims to create a fertile arena for logistics and medical knowledge-sharing to meet the needs of MSF and the humanitarian sector as a whole.

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DNDi

A collaborative, patients’ needs-driven, non-profit drug research and development organisation that is developing new treatments for neglected diseases, founded in 2003 by seven organisations from around the world.

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MSF Science Portal

Our digital portal dedicated to sharing the latest medical evidence from our humanitarian activities around the globe.

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Noma

Noma is a preventable and treatable neglected disease, but 90 per cent of people will die within the first two weeks of infection if they do not receive treatment.

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TIC

The TIC is aiming to change how MSF works to better meet the evolving needs of our patients.

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Telemedicine

MSF's telemedicine hub aims to overcome geographic barriers for equitable, accessible, and quality patient care.

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Sweden Innovation Unit

Launched in 2012, the MSF Sweden Innovation Unit deploys a human-centered approach for promoting a culture of innovation within MSF.

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Geo MSF

The GeoMSF platform is a dynamic one-stop-shop website for all of MSF's GIS related services and products. Access maps and applications through the catalogue, request geographical support, or produce a map on GeoMSF.

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Global

Seven years on

"The 'August 30 Decision' was supposed to help countries without drug manufacturing capacity access affordable medicines - but the system is so complicated that seven years on, we see that virtually nobody has been able to benefit from it," said Michelle Childs, Director of Policy Advocacy at MSF's Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines. Project Update - 27 Oct 2010
 
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Haiti

More preparation and prevention and treatment with Haiti cholera outbreak

MSF is continuing to prepare for the possibility that the disease could spread. At present, MSF can treat cholera at eight of its facilities in the Artibonite region and in and around Port-au-Prince. Project Update - 25 Oct 2010
 
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Pakistan

People returning home after Pakistan floods has impact on feeding programmes

With the emergency phase of the Pakistan floods over, people are returning to their homes, leaving the camps and settlement areas where they were receiving emergency aid. Project Update - 25 Oct 2010
 
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Haiti

MSF teams treating cholera patients in Saint-Marc, Artibonite region, Haiti

Assessment teams sent to Mirebalais and Petit Riviere. Project Update - 24 Oct 2010
 
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Haiti

MSF begins treatment in cholera-affected region of Haiti

Following the outbreak of acute diarrhea in the Artibonite region of Haiti, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) medical teams - including doctors, nurses and logisticians - immediately traveled to the affected areas along the Artibonite River, between the cities of Saint-Marc and Mirebalais. Project Update - 21 Oct 2010
 
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Pakistan

As emergency phase ends, Pakistan flood victims show symptoms of excessive stress

Flood waters have largely receded and people have begun to return to what remains of their homes. Project Update - 21 Oct 2010
 
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Pakistan

Letter from the field: One day in my life - A midwife in Balochistan, Pakistan

Olivia Lowe is a midwife working in Kuchlak, near Quetta in Pakistan's volatile Balochistan province. She manages the antenatal and postnatal care as well as the birthing unit at MSF's mother and child healthcare centre in Kuchlak. This is her first MSF mission. Voices from the Field - 20 Oct 2010
 
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Global

Open letter to the U.S. government about the quality of food aid

"On the eve of World Food Day 2010, I write on behalf of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) to urge the U.S. to stop supplying nutritionally substandard food to malnourished children in developing countries". - Sophie Delaunay, Executive Director?U.S Section of MSF Press Release - 15 Oct 2010
 
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Global

Reforming quality of global food aid critical to fight childhood malnutrition

Top donor countries must end double standard of supplying nutritionally substandard foods to young children in malnutrition 'hotspots' Press Release - 13 Oct 2010
 
Houses in the Boubazar slum near Kamrangirchar.<br />In the Kamrangirchar slum of Dhaka - on the banks of one of the most polluted rivers in the world - MSF runs a primary healthcare centre that provides care to children under five and pregnant and lactating women. Nearby, MSF also runs a therapeutic feeding centre. Through a largely home-based programme, these children are being fed with Plumpy Nut, a thick nutrient-rich peanut paste which helps children regain normal body weight. Kamrangirchar is one of Dhaka's many slum areas, a product of the urban mass migration that makes this capital the world's most rapidly expanding city. Development of public services and infrastructure has struggled to keep pace, and access to affordable health care is very limited. Formerly used as a dumping ground for the city's rubbish, the Kamrangirchar peninsula only started to become heavily populated over the last few decades. Covering just three square kilometres, the area is now home to 400,000 people. Through its presence, MSF hopes to bring its expertise and experience in treating malnutrition so that more children and their mothers can continue to live and grow up healthily.
Bangladesh

Slum conditions in Bangladesh pose health hazards, and malnutrition is a sign of other illnesses

"The level of health awareness in this community is very low, and people have a great deal of superstitious beliefs, such as believing that children may be touched by bad spirits through consuming breast milk or eating fish," Sophie de Montpelier, MSF's field coordinator. "Some mothers believe that a baby with diarrhoea should not be given extra water because the body already contains too much liquid. That's why MSF is investing a lot in health promotion activities here." Project Update - 13 Oct 2010
Four mothers posing in a corridor of the Hospital in Bili. All four of them are staying in the hospital with their child, that's suffering from a severe case of malaria. Since the beginning of the project in 2016, the pediatric ward already treated more than 4.000 cases of complicated/severe form of malaria.
Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)

Independent medical humanitarian assistance

We provide medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, or exclusion from healthcare. Our teams are made up of tens of thousands of health professionals, logistic and administrative staff - most of them hired locally. Our actions are guided by medical ethics and the principles of independence and impartiality. We are a non-profit, self-governed, member-based organisation.

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